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Kinda curious what they told the cast they were getting into because I can't imagine it was this.
I mean, is there anyone in the world who doesn't have an opinion about Cats? Anyone in the entertainment business who doesn't have a VERY STRONG INFORMED opinion about Cats? I think they knew exactly what they were getting into!
To be generous, they may not have realized what they'd look like after the CGI people got through with them. (Also - Idris Elba? he may have lost his sexiest man rating for this.)
I think they knew exactly what they were getting into!
Oh, come on, Judi Dench said to herself "CGI cats maybe wearing clothes and a forced plot? Sign me up!"
The plot is the same as the musical from what I can tell, with slightly more exposition (if those lines weren't added just for the trailer).
The production I saw had no plot whatsoever. That I noticed, anyway.
She always sounds like that to me.
I think that's true, but I just re-read that long Guardian article about vocal technique, thanks to JZ posting it, so it's on my mind.
Also, I am now stuck with "Jellicle songs/for jellicle cats!" in my head. Just that part.
Jesus Fucking Christ, it's Belinda: The Musical. [link]
Honestly, that's not as bad as I feared. As someone who saw Cats on Broadway ages and ages ago and thought the people as cats looked fairly ridiculous, this is mostly* an improvement?
But I just suffered through the new Lion King so that might have something to do with it.
[*Judi Dench excepted]
My feeling is, everything doesn't need to be a movie, or redone.
The plot of Cats:
Once a year, all the Jellicle cats gather together to choose a cat who will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and be reborn. One by one, each cat makes his/her case (or has their case made for them by a narrator cat) until eventually [SPOILER CAT] is chosen, and ascends, and the cats all celebrate. Halfway through the proceedings, they get distracted and put on a play-within-a-play about dogs. (Which had better not involve more CGI. I want to see Taylor Swift as a cat wearing a fucking traffic cone on her head.)